Galanthus in December 2013

[snowdropcollector]

Nice group of Castlegar Paddy, mine are just showing like Brian's.

Uwe, you still have a few to come with green on the outers...... , please post pictures when they flower. Always good to see
snowdrops with green on the outers.

[Hans A.]

Hello Hans,
your garden is a little more in the south, so you should have also the Gee some days/weeks earlier. I also have a few Gees, flowering today in the glasshouse. But all your other very noble galanthus (elwesii) , you showed us in December were "only" Gems, I think.
If you have too much of them....

How do you think about Uwes find?

You are right, Hagen - as my garden is more in the south than those of most Galanthusgrower in the forum, the climatical conditions are different - normally they start to flower later and stop to flower earlier because of the heat.
A few years ago I bought several pots with flowering Galanthus elwesii, mainly var. monostictus as I knew they flower earlier than var. elwesii. Think I have lost most of the var elwesii as normally growing period is to short for them here, while var. monostictus grows well and produce seedlings, unfortunately the most beautiful ones (mostly gifts) increase very slowly - hope by sowing seeds of them I will get some nice profilic plants with a lot of green which are adapted to the mediterranean conditions.

Uwes plants are very promising, they have to be observed the following years if the tips are stable. My experience: The better the conditions the better the green. Cold winter may not help very much the early ones.

[johngennard]

No exotics I am afraid but a nice clump of Three Ships

[Alan_b]

That's a fantastic display.  Calling those snowdrops a clump is like calling a forest a copse. 

[Uwe]

Hello John,
very nice clump of Three Ships. I hope in few years i have also those clump of variuos snowdrops. I'm  still a beginner.

[Leena]

That's a fantastic display.  Calling those snowdrops a clump is like calling a forest a copse.

I was just thinking the same. 
Really nice view! Like Uwe I'm a beginner but maybe someday I can see a lot of snowdrops in my garden, too. Though here it will be April when the snowdrops flower.

[uvularia]

I was just wondering if anyone had an idea what this G. elwesii could be flowering now?
Sorry about the photo quality..getting a tad dark.

Glorious clump of Three Ships, John

[ichristie]

Hello all, thanks to everyone for posting the snowdrop pictures ours are just beginning despite the wettest December, this is the last day of the year so Very Best wishes to all may your snowdrops grow in abundance,  cheers Ian the Christie

[Gerard Oud]

The last day of December 2013! I do wish everyone lost of good snowdrops and all the best for 2014.

Last pic of 2013; one of the first wild plicatusses flowering today! From a wellknown person from the east

[Gerard Oud]

This weekend I found this great snowdrop from Ru flowering, Emerald Bells  . A real beauty !!!!!!
Congratulations with this find Ru.

And a happy Christmas for all of you 

Can we give thumbs up, like on facebook for this one???